Author's Note: I hope everyone likes this chapter as much as they did the first! As usual review please!
Chapter Two:
"YOU'RE THE SITH LORD WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!" Anakin yelled as he ignited his lightsaber and pointed it at Chancellor Palpatine.
"Are you going to kill me, Anakin?" Palpatine calmly asked.
"I sure would like to." Anakin said through tightly clenched teeth. He didn't falter from his position, as he continued to hold his lightsaber in front of him.
"I know you would. I can feel your anger. Join me on the dark side and together we can save Padmé."
Padmé.
Anakin couldn't loose her. But he couldn't turn to the dark side. "I will never join you. I am going to turn you over to the Jedi council…"
Anakin could feel the dark side taking over everything, driving out all of the light. Master Windu had taken several other Masters with him to confront the Chancellor about giving up his powers and stepping down since Obi-Wan had destroyed General Grievous. Anakin had made sure that he told them that Palpatine was the Sith lord that they had been looking for. Windu made Anakin stay at the temple and wait in the council chambers while he and the other Masters went to handle this. Windu could feel that Anakin's feelings were jumbled at the moment.
But at the moment, Anakin's feelings weren't jumbled. They were focused. Focused on destroying the Sith and gaining the trust of the Jedi council, especially Master Windu. He could sense that they needed his help against Palpatine…
The scene was horrible. Windu was the only one left out of the four Jedi Masters when Anakin made it the Palpatine's senate office. He watched as Windu knocked the crimson lightsaber from Palpatine's hands and out the broken window. Suddenly Palpatine called upon Force lighting to strike Windu.
"Anakin! Help me!" Windu cried out as the lighting racked against his body.
Stunned for a minute, Anakin soon regained his composure and ignited his lightsaber and ran head long towards Palpatine. When the Sith lord saw Anakin heading towards him, he quit the Force lighting against Windu.
"Please Anakin help me…the Jedi just want control of the republic…" Palpatine said, seemingly to be out of breath.
Anakin stopped and stood next to Windu. "I don't believe you anymore! All you have done is lie to me!"
Palpatine's newly withered face had a sudden look of determination on it as he struck Windu and Anakin with Force lighting at the same time. Then too they managed to fend it off together. Palpatine lay motionless on the ground from exerting too much energy.
"We have to finish him off now!" Windu said.
"I agree."
Windu was just about to finish him off when Palpatine struck out with a Force push, knocking Anakin to the side. Windu's attention turned briefly towards Anakin, but it was too late.
Palpatine had another concealed lightsaber in his robes that he ignited and moved up against Windu's arm that held his lightsaber. The cleanly cut arm flew out the window, along with the Jedi Master's lightsaber.
Windu cried out in pain as Palpatine then struck him once again with Force lighting and Windu was knocked out the window.
"NOOOO!" Anakin cried out as he quickly scrambled to his feet and went rushing towards Palpatine. He knew it was already too late to save Master Windu, but it wasn't too late to destroy Palpatine and the Sith.
"You should have turned Skywalker. Now you too will die with the rest of the Jedi." Palpatine said as he turned towards the young Jedi.
Anakin felt a huge Force push knock him from his feet and he too went flying out the window.
He remembered falling…thinking of nothing but Padmé and their unborn child. He thought of Obi-Wan and how sorry he was for not listening to him better. There were so many things he would want to fix that he couldn't...
Within no time he landed with a THUD against the durasteel platform far below Palpatine's top office…he lay there, broken in spirit, in mind, and in body…he just wanted to see Padmé one more time before he became one with the Force…
"Padmé..." Anakin mumbled.
Sitting next to the hospital bed, Padmé stirred in a restless sleep at the sound of her name. Her eyes gently opened and they focused on her husband, who was still lying practically motionless.
It had been two days since she and Captain Typho had found him laying, practically dead, on the durasteel platform. The last words she had heard from him was that he loved her. After that he had slipped into a state of unconsciousness.
She and Captain Typho carefully moved him from the platform and into the speeder. Typho figured that there was something wrong when the 'Hero with no Fear' had been injured as bad as Anakin was. So they couldn't stay on Courscant. They had to take him somewhere else to be treated.
And that was what leads them to Polis Massa, a remote facility in an asteroid field.
That was where they were at the moment. She had heard mixed reports from Courscant that there had been an attack on the Jedi Temple and that was all that she knew.
She hoped than there was another Jedi out there, who had survived what ever happened. She knew that there was still hope. Neither Yoda or Obi-Wan had been heard from.
"Oh Ani please wake up and smile for me…" she said as she picked up his hand and gently rubbed it against her face.
She held it there for a few minutes and allowed her warm tears to touch his hand.
"Milady, Obi-Wan Kenobi is making contact with you." Captain Typho said walking tine the room.